Tories won't oust Boris Johnson until they decide who they are

There has been much talk of whether or not Boris Johnson will remain Tory leader and prime minister in 2022. It won’t have been much of a jolly Christmas for him as speculation about his future continued not just in SW1 but well beyond.

Unhappy MPs will be returning from their breaks this week having had an earful from constituents about the parade of scandals that hit the government from the October fuel crisis onwards and the sense of a government both out of control and out of touch.